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The video provides a comprehensive guide to creating and optimizing a Kratos Barbarian build in a game, emphasizing its effectiveness and enjoyment in gameplay. Key elements include the Walking Arsenal passive, frequent weapon and skill switches, and the use of powerful abilities like Iron Maelstrom for crowd control. The build balances defensive strength and offensive power, utilizing skills such as Iron Skin, War Cry, Upheaval, and Death Blow. Critical aspects of the build include high armor rating, defensive passives, and effective crowd control mechanisms. The speaker discusses strategic equipment choices, emphasizing critical attack speed, vulnerable enemy damage, and optimal weapon types. Additionally, they highlight the importance of skill sequences and Paragon setups that maximize overall damage output and survivability. The video concludes with the speaker expressing plans to provide future updates as the build is refined further.
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In this segment of the video, the creator introduces their guide for the Kratos Barbarian build, highlighting its effectiveness and enjoyment in gameplay. The build employs the Walking Arsenal passive, requiring frequent weapon and skill switches. The creator uses the Iron Mouse from Ultimate to clear large enemy groups quickly and combines this with upheaval and death blow for enhanced performance. The build is designed defensively, making it suitable for Hardcore mode, and excels in farming and leveling, though it may struggle with higher-tier dungeons. The creator emphasizes the build’s versatility and ability to handle various situations, continuously improving with higher levels. They note the build’s quick ability to swap skills and weapons, though it involves more active gameplay than other builds. Finally, they mention their enthusiasm for the Walking Arsenal concept since its announcement by Blizzard and proceed to discuss the setup in detail.
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In this segment of the video, the speaker discusses various aspects and mechanics of a game character build, focusing on the importance of specific aspects such as the encroaching wrath aspect, which significantly boosts weapon mastery skills after three upheavals, enabling one-shot boss combos. They highlight a particular encounter with a boss, explaining the strategy used and the occasional need for additional skills to finish the fight. The segment also covers the weapon master’s aspect, which grants additional charges and stun capabilities for weapon mastery skills, emphasizing its usefulness when certain conditions are not met.
Additionally, the speaker discusses the utility of upheaval as a secondary skill and mentions alternative skills with varying effectiveness, noting the deficiency of the Hell Hammer and certain summon aspects. They detail the defensive and offensive aspects of the build, aiming for a high armor rating for substantial damage reduction and including defensive skills like iron skin and rallying cry over others for a balanced build.
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In this segment of the video, the speaker discusses various defensive and utility mechanics for a particular character build. Key elements include defensive stance providing damage reduction, the use of the Iron Skin aspect for gaining Unstoppable status and extra damage reduction, and cycling between Iron Skin and War Cry to maintain consistent defenses. Iron Skin is highlighted as a powerful tool that enhances survivability by providing a barrier and healing over time. The combination with Ghost Walker boots adds movement speed and the ability to move through enemies, further enhancing gameplay fluidity. Additionally, aspects like Might and Accelerating are integrated for damage reduction and increased attack speed, respectively. The overall focus is on creating a tanky, smooth, and efficient build that excels in both defense and offensive transitions.
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In this part of the video, the speaker discusses the specifics of a character build, focusing on critical functionalities and aspects. The build includes some crowd control features like stuns from Iron Maelstrom and Upheaval, but these stuns are not the main focus. The “Berserk Fury” aspect is highlighted for its ability to smooth gameplay by maintaining Fury. “Steadfast Berserkers” is crucial for gaining Fortify, which is kept high through frequent hits with abilities like Upheaval and Death Blow. The speaker explains that the build is balanced defensively with four defensive aspects but can be adjusted for a more offensive approach if desired. Key stats for items include ranks for Upheaval and Death Blow, cooldown reduction, movement speed, and critical hit bonuses. The speaker advises against focusing on core skill damage and ultimate skill damage, emphasizing benefits from stats like close damage and general critical damage instead.
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In this segment, the video discusses the optimal setup for equipment and stats for a particular build. It emphasizes prioritizing critical attack speed, vulnerable enemy damage, and using two-handed weapons for maximum effect, particularly focusing on the sword for upheaval and the hammer for death blow. The AMOLED with heavy-handed passive is highlighted as ideal due to extra Critical Strike damage. The need to stack damage reduction on chest and pant items for overall survival is stressed. For boots, prioritize movement speed and evade charges. Rings with maximum life and critical stats are considered perfect. The segment also mentions using life on kill for additional healing instead of passive healing abilities. Lastly, it introduces the unique Overkill mace that buffs death blow by adding a shock wave effect but notes that its overall stats are suboptimal compared to other two-handed weapons.
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In this segment of the video, the speaker discusses optimizing a character build, emphasizing the strategic swapping of aspects to enhance combat effectiveness. The “accelerating” aspect, initially on two handles, is moved to a ring in the Overkill setup, preserving attack speed while incorporating Overkill for better area-clearing using death blows. The speaker describes a playstyle shift where the Overkill setup prioritizes death blows over upheaval casts for faster clearing, while a non-Overkill setup balances between the two for more AOE damage. They also discuss a skill tree, highlighting lunging swing for basic attack, upheaval with berserking and stun potential, and various defensive skills and passives for fortification and damage reduction. The discussion includes maximizing death blow for significant damage against bosses and integrating various passives to enhance overall performance.
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In this segment of the video, the speaker discusses strategies for making enemies vulnerable using a specific sequence of skills in their build. The combination involves using a Master skill followed by a core skill, such as “Death Blow” and “Upheaval,” to render enemies vulnerable for three seconds. This can be repeated to maintain vulnerability consistently during fights, especially when paired with the early game “Exploit Glyph.”
The build also includes a point in “Hamstring” for slowing enemies and exploits fortified synergies like “Counter Offensive” and “Defensive Stance” for damage increase and reduction respectively. The ultimate ability, “Iron Maelstrom,” is highlighted for its powerful three-step attack sequence. This ultimate uses different weapons in each step, creating an area-of-effect (AOE) attack that stuns, applies bleed, and deals massive damage. It targets main enemies first and cleans up surrounding foes. The ultimate has a base cooldown of 45 seconds, gains critical and damage bonuses, and its cooldown is reduced by swapping weapons. This move significantly boosts damage output and synergizes well with the blocking Arsenal for additional damage bonuses.
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In this part of the video, the speaker explains the intricacies of skill and weapon selection in a game, focusing on how different weapons and skills can be optimized for maximum effectiveness. They discuss the Arsenal skill selection feature, which allows players to choose specific weapons for each skill. For example, the speaker uses a slashing weapon for the “upheaval” skill, a blunt weapon for “death blow,” and dual-wield weapons for “lunge,” prioritizing statistics and damage output.
Additionally, the speaker talks about weapon attributes, highlighting a nearly perfect weapon that increases crit and berserk stats, and the use of two-handed expertise to boost damage. The Paragon setup is also detailed, with a focus on glyphs and a stratified six-board configuration. Key points include choosing the might glyph for extra damage with two-handed weapons, avoiding certain legendary nodes that aren’t beneficial, and favoring nodes that add attack speed and vulnerability damage for impactful results during combat.
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In this part of the video, the speaker explains the intricacies of their build guide, detailing combinations and synergies. They discuss using Death Blow and Upheaval to make enemies vulnerable, and the effective use of various glyphs such as “daunting” for fortify synergy and “territorial” for close damage and reduction. Additionally, they highlight the importance of the weapons master board and the role of bleeding enemies to enhance critical hit chances. The final section involves the “mortal draw” glyph, which provides extra damage and high critical hit probabilities when swapping weapons. The speaker concludes by stating their intention to continue refining the build and providing updates up to level 100.
00:27:00
In this part of the video, the speaker concludes by mentioning that they will update if there are any significant changes. They express hope that the viewers enjoyed the content and sign off with a farewell.